Was this a fair tender process? Government cuts Orkney ferry frequencies...
The Scottish Government announced yesterday that the passenger and vehicle sailings to Orkney are to be cut by 33% in off peak periods.This announcement came four days after the Court of Session in...
View ArticleTime to ask what the people will stand: striking GPs have it all ways
GPs and their hospital-based colleagues are striking this Thursday – 21st June – over changes to pension rights that would see younger doctors working to the age of 68 – the new state retirement age...
View ArticleCouncil stalemate: attitude shifts and external leverage
In the continuing stalemate at Argyll and Bute Council, with no serious talking going on and the next council meeting the immediate hope of a material address to the situation, there is, as of this...
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Jamie McGrigor’s parliamentary question and FOI release reveals DFM’s misuse...
The unravelling of what is a massive and wilfully conscious waste of public money for intended political gain began with the latest in a persistent series of questions from Jamie McGrigor MSP, related...
View ArticleLocal MSPs prescription for the economic recovery and repopulation of Argyll...
Last Wednesday’s Economic Summit – or Depopulation Summit – was hosted by Argyll and Bute Council to mask the fact that it has no idea what to do about Argyll’s intertwined crises of a shrinking and...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership: addicted to abuse
On the evidence below – For Argyll is calling for an urgent independent and independently appointed, external investigation of what appear to be serious problems at Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol and...
View ArticleMore trouble as ADP orders handover of personal details of service users
Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] is trying to force the pace to install in six weeks the single contractor they have appointed in a controversial process to deliver all addiction...
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Reality of unreadiness of ADP for planned service transition on New Year’s Day
Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership’s state of readiness for the planned 1st January 2015 transition in delivering addiction services across Argyll and Bute is now a matter of widespread and...
View ArticleMinister’s email to Jackie Baillie shows he has been mischievously misinformed
Users of addiction services in Argyll and Bute have been distressed by the chaotic and unmanaged fast tracking of a profound change to the delivery of these services, due to take place on 1st January...
View ArticleMore reason to question the integrity of the ADP Addaction contract and now...
This one was always going to run and run – because it has been obvious from the start that the management of the Scottish Government funded Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] is out of...
View ArticleWhat happens to addiction services across Argyll and Bute on 1st February?
As of 7th January, Addaction, the incoming contractor responsible singly for supplying addiction services across Argyll and Bute, had not registered with the Care Commission to deliver these services...
View ArticleNew information dictates new start for the ADP addiction services contract
In June 2014, Argyll and Bute Council’s procurement team issued an Invitation To Tender [ITT] to provide Argyll and Bute-wide community addiction recovery services.The deadline for the submission of...
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